Virginia Society for Human Life Sights Tragic Report That Abortion is on the Rise in Virginia
Virginia Society for Human Life Sights Tragic Report That Abortion is on the Rise in Virginia
The latest report from the pro-abortion Guttmacher organization indicates what many pro-lifers have feared for Virginia since the Dobbs decision in 2022. Abortion promoters are using the lack of protective pro-life laws and the virtually unregulated practice of abortion in the first two trimesters of pregnancy to turn the Commonwealth into a destination for abortions. The state has seen six new abortion facilities open or go into development since 2022 bringing the total number to 23.
According to the report the number of abortions in Virginia has increased by 4,300 and assumes that that number includes many women who may have traveled here from out of state.
Virginia removed the majority of protective laws for unborn children and their mothers in 2020 opening a door to the dangerously unregulated situation we find ourselves in today. The current laws allow non-doctors to perform abortions or prescribe abortion chemicals and no office visit is required. Online prescriptions mean that women receiving these drugs may not even be pregnant.
“The new numbers suggest a deeply alarming trend and the threatened unlimited abortion amendment that has already passed once in the General Assembly will mean that Virginia will only see more unborn children lose their lives and mothers put at risk from unscrupulous abortion promoters.”, said Olivia Gans Turner, president of VSHL.
Virginia’s elections this year will allow concerned people to halt the threat of the abortion amendment, the so- called Right to Reproductive Freedom Act, and send a message that Virginians do not want our home to become an abortion destination.
